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I used to love smoking until I tried to do push-ups one night and got mad that I couldn't do them anymore so I threw my last cigar at the wall and smashed it and said I QUIT and that was like five years ago or something and I'm still quitted and glad because that crap is bullcrap shit.

I'd like to try a pipe, especially one of those Sherlock Holmes ones, but I'd be too embarrassed about it. I'd have to hide in here and smoke it in the dark or something so there's no chance anyone ever caught me using one.

Also, just in case you want some shitty advice, I'd say for the next couple weeks, just avoid watching movies altogether. Just read books or something.
When you stop smoking, you are going to see someone smoking in Every. Single. Movie!
Even movies you've seen twenty times and never noticed you'll be like "What the? Look at that person smoking! It looks soooo good. UGH!"

You could ween yourself on ecigs, i smoke them every now and then. I quit smoking cold turkey pretty much but when i slipped up and had a cigarette while i was quitting, i didn't think "well shit, now i'm smoking again", i just thought of it as a cigarette and i was still in the process of quitting. Now the thought of smoking a cigarette repulses me. But ecigs are cleaner and easier to smoke.

I had to busy all my senses at the same time. Just patch didn't work.
It took 6 months. And no Mexican or Chinese food or beer, because those things made me crave ciggs.
Busied all Senses.
1. Hands/touch - took up crochet. By the end I had 3 very long scarves. Good presents.
2. Mouth/taste - gum and nicorette. You have to mix them together. And the nicorette is nasty but it works, the nastyness helps you ween faster to the gum though.
3. Sight, took my crocheting to poetry reading and worked while they performed. They kinda loved it. It felt like a support group, with out everyone fixated on ciggs especially.
4. Smell, took long walks, where flowers could be picked and brought bouquets to fill my room. Probably wasn't supposed to go through people's gardens but I stayed away from expensive looking gardens. I like wild flowers as much as hot house anyhow.
5.

5. Hearing, and sight kinda went together. Watched readings. Actively became immersed in readings, participating and reading my own creation or an excerpt of favorite author every other week. It gave me something else to focus on.
I used to smoke 2 and a half packs daily camel lights,
Now I only smoke 2 ciggs a year, maybe. And then I throw them down halfway through because they taste worse than the first time I ever tried one.
Group readings, crochet, gum, nicorette, and water.
Oh yeah, always bring a bottle of water everywhere. Its cheap, healthy, helps you from gain I g weight and keeps hands and mouth busy. Did i mention CHEAP?
Kept water, small book and crochet supplies in same bag.

You are over paying on a product that gives you nothing in return besides - shortness of breath, a shorter life span, high blood pressure, and (most likely) emphysema or cancer.

If I told you that you could pay me $7-8 a day and I will make your life miserable and slowly kill you, you most likely wouldn't go for that offer. But we do anyway... It makes no sense. And this coming from me - I'm a health nut and I smoked for 14 years.

Also I did this the first couple months - take that money you would normally spend on cigarettes and put it to the side each day. At the end of the month, buy yourself something sweet.

Yeah, I genuinely don't want to smoke anymore. I have been sick of it for a while.

What is getting me right now is the actual physical withdrawal symptoms I am experiencing. It is real discomfort. Nervousness, tension in my entire body, achy. I'm having trouble focusing, or over focusing on things. The crankyness isn't as bad this morning as last night, but I hardly slept. Maybe four hours of sleep. Some of it may be psychosomatic, but it doesn't feel that way at all.

I keep telling myself a drug is what made me feel this way, and addiction is slavery. No, I don't want a cigarette. A smoke won't fix the way I feel, it is what caused the way I feel. Only not smoking will fix this, detoxing.

There will never be a good time to quit smoking. You have to choose it. It's like many other things in that you will benefit more from it when it is your choice to do so. Additionally, I will suggest this: Ecstasy Herbal Cigarettes. The flavor is abysmal and there is no tobacco in it. You can then keep the habit portion and you will learn to hate it every time you do it. In a very short time, the association of the activity will be directly related to the nasty taste and you will get through the detox more easily. After a while, any time you see someone smoking, you will taste that horrid flavor and be completely repulsed by the thought.

Better to stick it out and conquer it when you're in the hell's den of triggers. I say "conquer" but I think it's really not as difficult as we make it out to be. It's really just a matter of finding other distractions. I got a Rubik's cube and learned to solve it. Now I'm just trying to do it faster. Unfortunately, I'd feel weird bringing that to a bar, so... now I don't go to bars very much.

You can do it. I don't know what Oregon weather is like this time of year but we're headed into the bowels of winter now. Zero degrees all next week. The slushiest, most acidic stage of Winter's digestion before she shits us out into the spring garden where we will be greeted by the flowers and butterflies and birds but still covered in the shit that will take the first couple of weeks to wash off. But cigarettes will upset her stomach and render the passage even fiercer not just for you, but, everyone with and around you. We're almost there, Amber. Cold turkey. Cold winter turkey. Think of the butterflies.

You are over paying on a product that gives you nothing in return besides - shortness of breath, a shorter life span, high blood pressure, and (most likely) emphysema or cancer.

If I told you that you could pay me $7-8 a day and I will make your life miserable and slowly kill you, you most likely wouldn't go for that offer. But we do anyway... It makes no sense. And this coming from me - I'm a health nut and I smoked for 14 years.

Also I did this the first couple months - take that money you would normally spend on cigarettes and put it to the side each day. At the end of the month, buy yourself something sweet.

I always think about this. I think it's one of the main reasons I never picked up smoking habitually. I'd rather spend my money on something else.

Being snowed in and house bound with the whole family since friday made it sort of difficult. James has been really good about not smoking around me at all, but knowing he has them has made it sort of hard since he has been here all day for days.

I've made him give me a couple of drags of his smoke when I caught him, which adds up to about one whole cigarette a day the past couple of days.

I am going to knock that off though, I am still quitting. I have just regressed a little. Which I am going to stop, because I can't have it both ways.

I really see how much time and mental energy is spent on the habit now, how often a day I think about smoking and how before I would follow that urge every time. Before I was smoking a pack to a pack and a half a day, at ten minutes each that is three or more hours a day spent on the habit.

Three hours a day I now don't know how to fill up! More reading, more art, more getting my life in functional order I guess.

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